The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-09-16

prove sUToilS plUcHeT, piONiueu HIS uIi
recovered its former power. Radbourn /
gentlemanly and brsiny he has alway
batted and run bases well; is no recor'
player If he was released to-day he coul'
get offers from dozen clubs.
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The directors of the Boston club hav
managed to lose the championship by thei
remarkable laundering, false economy ant
club that is of the first rank. AS they hav
they do not greatly care.
The Boston public has paid them $3.50,
500 The sum is admitted to be no les
than that The receipts out of town will
make the total about $167, ,0O0 From th
deduct salary of players $35, 900, Kelly
release $lO, 200, salary of directors $500
travelling expenses $4,000, and other OK
penses making altogether about 1854, 500.
The privileges of the ball grounds will
about pay for the care and maintenance.
Boston will have chance for the cham
pionship when it gets a manager. Letting
Harry Wright go was prodigious mistake.
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This years failure has inspired the man.
ayers with notion that it would be we'll to
accomplish something next year. Kelly
will be the keystone of the club, and it is
likely that Larry Mccormick will be hired
to pitch at him. Only a penny wise econ.
omy prevented the association from buy
ing Mccormick this year. Mccormick and
Kelly would be a strong battery. Then
there is little Madden, who will probably do
great work in the pitcher box, unless lie is
refused an adequate salary.
Radbourn may be swapped for second
baseman Dunlap of Detroit. Glasscock
and Denny are coveted here
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DIR. +. A. Harris, who discussed the
"Death Penalty for Drunkenness" in Sun
days Globe, is a medical examiner, and
speaks from experience. He says that many
''plan drunks' have died in the cells dur
ing his service, and that the deaths could
have been prevented if the drunkards, like
other poisoned people, had been cared for
at some hospital Death from the narcotic
influence of alcohol can be prevented by
keeping the patient from falling into a
stupor. Some of the deaths are due to
suffocation, the .drunkard being unable to
help himself. DR.. Harris recommends that
special ward in hospital be set aside for
cases of ''dead drunk" and sharply OBJ
serves: sit may be said that such lives are
not worth saving; but the state says fine
of 81 shall be the punishment, and SO long
as this be the case why inf1ict the death PEN
alty!'
An officer of temperance society says
very few drunkards who sign the pledge
keep it. The habit is too strong. The
only ones who really reform are
those who become religious. A man must
have some hope, pride or religion, or he
cannot be saved. The good of the tenn
eperance societies. this officer says, Is not so
much in saving the fallen as in preventing
those now straight from going astray.
1t might be thought from the strenuous
way in which dogs and horses are insisted
upon as constituting the leading features of
ga Run of Luck" which is started on its
course at the Boston theater this week, that
there were no human beings in the cast at all,
but the lines were to be barked or neighed.
This impression would be incorrect, as the
company is large one, and sufficiently
strong for this class of work.
The animals are really we'll bred and
pretty fair actors as ordinary support goes.
Some of the thirty Irish hunting dogs are
almost knowing enough to talk, and they
have an aristocratic line of ancestors.
The horses, too, are mainly English
thoroughbreds. One of them ''Trouhe,"
has won fifty three races. The Trouble
stakes at Saratoga are named after him.
These horses jump hurdles on the stage
in the third act of the drama, waiting with
the other performers at the sides for the
time to make their appearance.
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IL seems hardly credible that Edward E.
Rice can ever surpass his latest accomplish
ment in burlesque, THE Corsair, - in splen-
dor of dressing and scenery. 1t is by far
the most sumptuous and really magnificent
stage picture ever presented. Singing and
acting are of small account as regards box
Office receipts when such gorgeousness is on
exhibition. Of course the actresses are not
the least part of the picture, and the spar
ing way in which the material is used in
the construction of the ladies' dresses is in
itself conclusive evidence of its priceless
value.
No doubt he felt that to have used more
of the material would have looked like vul
gar ostentation, and there seems to be no
demand on the part of the public for such
OF course the music is bright and catchy.
The tunes have a certain jingle that sets
the feet agoing. The fact that they appeal
to the feet rather than to the heads of their
hearers satisfactorily accounts for their
popularity.
The 'Dominie's Daughter has been
much improved because of the sharp criti
cism it has encountered; it has been partly
and will thereby, no doubt, Sc
cure a longer lease of favor.
Barnabee, Karl and Mcdonald are not
singers, and no doubt they will
do. as well under their new name, ''The
as if they called themselves the
"Boston Ideals" which name now goes
Zelie De Lussan and her manager
go.
In the Barnabee company will be Marie
Stone, Agnes Huntington, Camille Mouri, a
new one from Tennessee, Ricardo Ricci,
we'll known abroad, George rockingham
and heap of others.
The Bostonians will for the most part
execute the old, unkillable operas, such as
The Bohemian Girl" which has lives
enough for brigade of cats. They will |
spice the programs in the larger cities with |
new and amusing.
Apparently the Ideals will make a more |
attempt to introduce new interest |
INTO the grand opera business, which is los
ng what little hold on the public it ever |
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